Busia Wife Batterer Saved From Angry Crowd By Police

Busia County, Kenya

Residents of the Legio area of Busia border town in western Kenya were awoken from their early slumber by desperate screams of a woman. Screams that they knew of well. It had been the habit of this Bwana every night or so to make a punching bag of his wife and children.

According to our sources, this wife batterer was of a different shade as he wasn't a drunk and appeared to be sadistic individual, deriving pleasure from spilling the blood of his own kinsmen. On this night however, the residents couldn't have no more of that and decided to teach the man a lesson.

Eye witness accounts report that on reaching their humble abode, they found the battered woman sobbing in the dark, under the mercy of the elements as all her eve was exposed to the world. After sourcing a leso from the couples' neighbors to cover the poor woman's nakedness, the now mammoth crowd turned their attentions to the despicable man.


As fast as only a coward can be,the middle aged man had by now already locked himself inside their one roomed abode, taking their two young children hostage.There were reports that the woman's sister had been caught inside the man's self imposed prison as she had been first to the scene in a bid to rescue her sister from the jaws of death. Claims which our sources could not independently verify.

Armed with all manner of crude weapons, the crowd struggled with the metal door, rocks were thrown on the iron sheet roof, windows were smashed as talk circulated that the man had hidden himself under the bed. According to our sources, women in the crowd could be heard requesting the unruly young men to get done with the door so that they could deal with the man in a way that would teach all wife batterers in the area to desist from their primitive violence acts.

Luckily for the man, the metal held forte for just long enough to be saved from the crowd as Busia police arrived at the scene to calm the rising tensions and lead him to custody with the crowd baying his blood.Our sources inform us that the disappointment in the women's voice could be heard as some went as far as lamenting that their sharpened wives would go to waste as they had readied themselves for castration.

We would like to express our disgust at gender based violence and any other forms of violence including mob justice that the crowd wanted to mete on the wife batter. The efforts of Busia police are commendable. May justice be served. May the psychological, emotional and physical wounds of the victims heal.